After bringing the world where Yuan Huang resided back to the Myriad Realms Association's territory, Shen Lin finally realized what the Myriad Realms Association had become over the years.
The threat of the Three Great Transcendent Powers was gone.
Those troublemaking fellows from the Outer Void Realm were gone too.
The Myriad Realms Association was now several times larger than it had been at its peak.
World after world shone like stars, densely reflecting the golden radiance cast by the River of Time.
After learning that Shen Lin had returned, Chongyang and the others came to welcome him as well.
So many years had passed, and Chongyang's cultivation had also broken through to the Transcendence Realm.
Aside from him, three of the Myriad Realms Association's original cultivators had also broken through.
Now, even without Shen Lin, the Myriad Realms Association would no longer be wiped out in the crisis of the Epochal End.
Even so, Chongyang and the others still respected Shen Lin as deeply as ever.
After all, they could not have reached their current realms without the cultivation techniques Shen Lin had created back then.
Besides, only after reaching the Transcendence Realm did they truly understand how unattainable the Half-step Creation Realm was.
Chongyang's talent was ranked among the best not only in this epoch, but even among the Three Great Transcendent Powers, which had developed for countless years.
Yet even after becoming a Transcendent, he felt that no matter how much of his remaining life he exhausted, it would be impossible for him to break through to the Half-step Creation Realm.
But Shen Lin had already broken through to the Half-step Creation Realm ten billion years ago.
"You were in seclusion for so long. Did you gain anything?"
Chongyang asked curiously.
In the past, Shen Lin's breakthroughs